Growing concerns over protests roiling Libya prompted the State Department to begin evacuating some diplomats from Tripoli, as the Pentagon put troops stationed at nearby European bases on high alert. [Washington Post] YOU READ that correctly, amid the furor over the testimony of Greg Hicks, the Washington Post is reporting we’re evacuating some diplomats from [...]
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Pickering on Benghazi “Cover Up”: “Pulitzer Prize-Winning Fiction”
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy “We met with Hillary Clinton. We did so before the report was finalized. … We believed and we still believe the decision making was made quite well below her level. It was reviewed below her level.” – Thomas Pickering THE REAL loser today [...]
Queer Talk: Karl Rove Says 2016 GOP Presidential Candidate “Could” Support “Gay Marriage”
That was interesting. Yesterday, Karl Rove, via Business Insider, on ABC’s “This Week,” was asked: Karl Rove, can you imagine the next presidential campaign, a Republican candidate saying flat out I am for gay marriage?’ ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked him. ‘I could,’ Rove said. Rove was asked about this week’s Supreme Court hearings related [...]
Showtime’s Dick Cheney Doc Reveals What Obama and Hillary Clinton Did in Resurrecting America’s Foreign Policy Brand
“If you’re a man of principle, compromise is a bit of a dirty word. The President made the decision that he wanted to avoid major controversy. It was his call, so that’s what we did.” – Dick Cheney on George W. Bush’s decision to reverse himself on warrantless wiretaps when he finds out what Cheney [...]
Karl Rove Targets Ashley Judd by Mocking Kentuckians in “Vote For Me, You Hillbillies”
The ad uses clips of Judd saying, among other things, that she is “aggressively and delightfully radical” and would “follow” Obama anywhere. Those kinds of quotes aren’t likely to engender her to Kentucky voters, who overwhelming voted Republican in the last presidential election. [USA Today] KARL ROVE is scared of Ashley Judd. Judd is considering [...]
Erick Erickson and Romney’s Cannibalism by Consultants
THIS IS an extraordinary autopsy by Erick Erickson on the money blood letting and political canabalism that occurred in the Republican Party during the 2012 presidential election cycle. I’d love to hear a response from any conservatives I know lurk around here, including commenters that have been absent since Obama won reelection. In begins like [...]
MSNBC Bests Fact Free FNC
THE OBAMA network, aka MSNBC for those in an alternate universe, is annoying, because the American public has learned not to trust anyone because of our media picking sides. However, considering the prowess Fox News had achieved since its founding it’s clear something had to be done, so NBC did it. In the election of [...]
Fox Executives Respond About Karl Rove’s Role on Election Night
What role was Karl Rove playing when he heatedly contradicted Fox News? – New York Times THIS IS the question that reverberates after what played out on the evening of Election Day. Chris Wallace kicked it off by saying he’d talked with the Romney campaign, who was challenging the results of Ohio and the calling [...]
Jon Stewart Gets Final Word on Fox News Channel Election Night Implosion
The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook “By the way, ‘Math You Do As A Republican To Make Yourself Feel Better’ is a much better slogan for Fox than the one they have now.” – Jon Stewart IT’S NOT possible to get enough of what happened [...]
Fox News Debacle, Network Humiliation in Prime Time *Video Update*
IT WAS a remarkable spectacle on Fox News Channel once Ohio was called for President Obama and he was reelected the 44th president of the United States. It began when Chris Wallace announced that the Romney campaign was disputing the numbers coming out of Ohio. Moments later Karl Rove starts spinning out the names of [...]
Top Story — President Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States **Updated**
OHIO PUTS him over the top. …and on cue, Fox News is reporting that Chris Wallace has talked to Team Romney who is disputing Ohio. — Taylor Marsh (@taylormarsh) November 7, 2012 Fox News Channel calls Ohio for Obama. Fox News Channel analysts are blowing Karl Rove out of the water on camera with Megyn [...]
Pollapalooza: National Polls Keeping Karl Rove’s “Shuck and Jive” Routine Afloat
Less than two weeks out from Election Day, Republican Mitt Romney has erased President Barack Obama’s 16-point advantage among women, a new Associated Press-GfK poll shows. And the president, in turn, has largely eliminated Romney’s edge among men. – AP/GFK EVEN MORE proof that women vote on financial issues first can be seen in the [...]
Prison Bound, Alabama’s Ex-Governor Siegelman Slams Karl Rove
IT IS a story from back in the bad old Bush era. This dredges up the accusations pointing to Karl Rove and U.S. attorneys scandal, which is the subject of a new book by Carl Unger. Rove got his man in Alabama. For anyone who followed the story it’s finally roosting for Siegelman, who has [...]
American Crossroads Keeps Coming at Obama on the Economy
Strategists say Crossroads is spending $6.6 million on ads in eight swing states, aggressively undercutting Obama’s campaign slogan: “Forward.” At the same time, the associated group Crossroads GPS is dropping another hefty sum into the North Dakota Senate race, attempting to take down a surprisingly resilient Democratic nominee, former state Attorney General Heidi Heitkamp. Both [...]
Romney Calls Akin Comments ‘Insulting, Inexcusable and Wrong’, As Rove’s Group Pulls Out of Missouri
The conservative outside-spending powerhouse Crossroads GPS is pulling its ads from the Missouri Senate race, three sources confirmed to POLITICO. [...] Contacted about the decision to withdraw its resources from Missouri, Crossroads spokesman Nate Hodson responded: “The act speaks for itself.” [Politico] REPUBLICAN NOMINEE Mitt Romney acted like someone who wants to lead Republicans closer [...]
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